Archinect - News2017-08-18T01:26:26-04:00http://archinect.com/news/article/110688053/of-dirt-and-cleanliness-clean-india-campaign
Of Dirt and Cleanliness – (Clean India Campaign) Orhan Ayyüce2014-10-07T12:00:00-04:00>2014-10-15T21:28:30-04:00
<img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/2j/2jvubckb0ex14ej8.jpg" width="650" height="406" border="0" title="" alt="" /><p>"In all modern cultures, cleaning up merely involves moving &ldquo;dirt&rdquo; from one place to another. Five decades ago, cleaning up may have been easier. It would have meant restoring the predominantly organic and compostable discards in the waste stream to its rightful place &ndash; namely, the soil &ndash; and facilitating its transformation into manure. &nbsp;Over the past two decades, India has transformed from a sleepy nation living in its villages to an economic powerhouse with an urban population bursting at its seams. We can, as Modi did in the UN General Assembly, invoke our ancient culture to claim that Indians have a special relationship with and reverence for nature. But that does not take away from the fact that Indians or Americans, Hindus or Muslims, we are all worshippers of the same homogenising religion of consumerism. We are what our garbage is. Our garbage which once bore no resemblance to American garbage is increasingly peppered with the same brand names, the same indestructible materi...</p>
http://archinect.com/news/article/76898650/turning-waste-into-building-blocks-of-the-future-city
Turning waste into building blocks of the future city Archinect2013-07-12T12:32:00-04:00>2013-07-15T18:20:10-04:00
<img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/36/36059f19667a0e299db276b373bf23c1.jpg" width="624" height="351" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>What if the rubbish was refabricated to become real urban spaces or buildings? If it is plausible to adapt current machinery, how much material is available? At first sight, any sanitary landfill may be viewed as an ample supply of building materials. Heavy industrial technologies crush cars or to automatically sort out garbage are readily available. 3-D printing has exhausting capabilities if adjusted to larger scales.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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